[ɪˈkwɪvəkeɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself
(e.g: the government have equivocated too often in the past)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘use a word in more than one sense’): from late Latin aequivocat- ‘called by the same name’, from the verb aequivocare, from aequivocus (see equivocal)